Magnepan 1.7i

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Magnepan are based in Minnesota, USA and have been manufacturing their magneplanar speakers since 1969 when engineer Jim Winey came up with the idea. Situated in a 50,000 square foot facility Magnepan have so far sold over 200,000 pairs of their speakers worldwide, also affectionately known as ‘Maggies. Basically they are a panel speaker but the voice coil of a conventional speaker is stretched out over a Mylar film sheet which when amplified excites the Mylar film to create sound, being that there is no cabinet they offer a very clean and revealing sound, with great detail, finesse and speed, being considered by many to be the closest you can get to that live sound, especially as they are a dipole design meaning that they fire out the same sound from behind as from the front giving a very big and realistic soundstage.

After a 12-year history, reaching a near-iconic standing, the Magneplanar 1.6 has been improved with value engineering. No costly tweaks of questionable sonic value. Magnepan is all about better ideas which give verifiable, high-value sonic improvements. All members of a listening panel chose the 1.7 or the 1.6 in a blind listening test.

The 1.7 is a departure from Magnepan's 41-year history of using planar magnetic drivers for the bass or lower midrange. The use of quasi ribbon technology down into the lower midrange and bass will provide a new level of coherence.

What is a quasi-ribbon? The quasi ribbon driver is a deviation from the true ribbon design. A very thin film backing is used to hold the delicate ribbons in place. One of the advantages of quasi ribbon drivers is extremely wide frequency band width and high power handling. The result in the 1.7 is low distortion and seamless ribbon clarity--a sound so clear and effortless that it has changed the thinking of thousands of audiophiles about planar speakers.

The 1.7 also boasts a quasi ribbon super tweeter with a wider "sweet spot," and one step closer to the delicacy and detail of Magnepan's true ribbon design.

Magnepan Magneplanar 1.7 speakers

They look more like doors than speakers. And in a sense, they are—the supermodel-sized speakers seem to "open up" and let you hear into a recording in a way you can't with conventional speakers. Credit the quasi-ribbon-driver technology, which suspends super-thin strips of mylar-backed foil in a magnetic field. The result: the big speakers seem to disappear, replaced by a soundstage that's as deep as it is wide. Voices sound uncannily real, and the bass is surprisingly satisfying for a design without conventional woofers.

The 1.7i is not big.

What? You say.

The 1.7i is not big from an acoustical standpoint. However, the bass driver is big. If we sold the portion of the speaker from 200 Hz up, you could put it in the average apartment. Yes, it is tall, but very narrow. The ideal speaker would be a massless line-source that would look like a pole--from the floor to the ceiling. The 1.7i comes as close to that ideal as is possible with real-world devices.

The 1.7i bass driver is the reason it is big. Sorry, but that is what it takes to have high definition bass

Technical specifications :

3-Way, Full-Range, Quasi-Ribbon Frequency response : 40 Hz - 24 Hz Sensitivity : 88+ dB/ 500 Hz / 2,83v Impedance : 4 Ohms Dimensions : 162 x 47,5 x 5 cm Weight : 22 kg